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As postdoctoral research fellow/senior research fellow you will work on a project to develop a system for computer-aided item development, focusing on the analysis of item structure and content, as well as evaluation of the system. You will also be involved in the implementation/fine tuning of various Natural Language Processing (NLP) components. The initial contract is for two years with the possibility of extension, subject to successful completion of this project. You should have a PhD in linguistics/computational linguistics or equivalent experience together with native or near native English language comprehension and excellent knowledge of English grammar, syntax and discourse analysis. Experience NLP techniques and programming as well as experience working on industrial projects (or working to tight deadlines) are desirable. For appointment at Senior Research Fellow level you will need to demonstrate a very good publications record, grant applications experience, and potential leadership qualities.

Applications should include a completed application form, CV, and covering letter in which the candidates explain why they have applied for the position and give details of their research interests/experience and background. Candidates should also give the names of three referees with their email addresses and telephone numbers. The interviews are scheduled to take place early October, and the starting date as soon as possible after that.

Established by Prof. Mitkov in 1997, the Research Group in Computational Linguistics (http://clg.wlv.ac.uk) is a highly successful one, delivering cutting-edge research in a number of NLP areas such as anaphora resolution, automatic summarisation, question answering, lexical knowledge acquisition, textual entailment, text categorisation, named entity recognition, information extraction, corpus construction and annotation, automatic terminology processing, multilingual processing, and multiple-choice question generation. To a large extent, this research has been undertaken in projects funded by major UK funding bodies and commercial partners.